Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC)

The Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) is a facility that incorporates the 15-meter James
Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the 3.8-meter United
Kingdom Infrared Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea along with the
Centre's Hawaii headquarters in Hilo. The facility is operated by the Royal
Observatory, Edinburgh on behalf of the Science and Engineering Research
Council of the United Kingdom, the Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek, and the National Research Council of Canada.